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But realistically, how many of those Death Row rappers would be available to talk about the heyday of the label? I mean asking their boss to let them take off a shift just to reminisce on a podcast seems unlikely.

What really gets lost in all the talk of Joe Camel being a bad role model for kids is that, as bad as a role model as he was, he was an even worse driver.

WGAE members, this is going to be such an amazing event on Zoom, with panelists @susanrinkunas.com of @autonomynews.co, Zora Howard, Eliza Hittman, and Caren Spruch of @ppfa.org, moderated by @melissahilfers.bsky.social! RSVP in the link!

" ... so you're saying I get to tell Trump AND Texas to go fuck themselves with one vote? What's the catch?"

People who are leaving NYC, please post pix of your U-Hauls!

Hard to think of a comic that has scratched a particular itch as well as the Absolute Batman Annual.

I’m with you chocolate ice cream is incredibly pedestrian. That said…Jeni’s Milkiest Chocolate is outstanding. Not only the best chocolate ice cream, but chocolate ice cream that is worth eating.

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Sequel! Or update? How about ranking the Billboard Top 10 songs during your likely window of conception?

Preach! @tmobilesupport.bsky.social is indeed trash.

Four pints of Jeni’s ice cream. The flavors are Cranberry Panettone with Chocolate Sprinkles, Dulce de Leche, Pistachio Macaron and White Chocolate Peppermint.

In my happy place.

My Top 10 Concerts of 2025 (updated)

1) Beth Gibbons
2) Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3) English Teacher
4) Little Brother
5) L.A. Witch
6) Bleached
7) Deltron 3030
8) Pom Pom Squad
9) Corrine Bailey Rae
10) The Pharcyde

A slight clarification; the Kimmel thing started with the FCC chair threatening ABC. Nexstar just provided cover, an intervening issue so the appearance is that ABC is caving to their affiliates rather than to the administration.

Disney has Tron: Ares, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Rental Family, Zootopia 2, Ella McCay, Avatar: Fire and Ash, and Is This Thing On? opening this year. I hope the talent involved in these movies curtails all planned publicity until the company reverses its decision about Kimmel.

The only way forward is to inflict as much financial AND publicity damage on Disney as possible as swiftly as possible. Cancel streaming subscriptions, boycott products, picket, encourage politicians and entertainment figures to shout about this from the housetops. Demonstrate the cost of cowardice.

To say that Charlie Kirk cared about engaging with people and changing their minds is like saying the Harlem Globetrotters care about the challenge of playing competitive basketball. www.indignity.net/il-est-charl...

Things are dire. We’re losing faith in institutions. Journalism is, at best, under attack and at worst rolling over for an authoritarian. It is a dark moment in history.

But at least The Morning Show is back and giving me faith in journalists and journalism again.

"I don't care that he's dead."
"He's not a hero."
"He's a scumbag."
"He shouldn't be celebrated."

No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd.

Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.

This was a word AND he cussed 😂

Is this doing politics the right way @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social? Lies and hate is doing politics right is it? Maybe if the lies and hate were directed at you, you’d see things differently. (By the way this post is doing politics right).

"On the last episode of his show before he was killed," Kirk told "his audience, falsely, that “one in 22 Black men will be a murderer in their lifetime” and that “by age of 23, half of all Black males have been arrested and not enough of them have been arrested.”

Charlie Kirk warns that Haitian migrants "will become your masters" if Trump loses the election

Last September Charlie Kirk claimed that Haitian immigrants in Huntsville were "raping your women and hunting you down at night." He said that rural Alabamians faced a future in which Haitian immigrants "will become your masters." www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

I feel you. I have mourned many ice cream flavors that were taken too soon. But sometimes you have to let go and move on.

S&S, I’m torn. They take big swings, but that can also lead to big misses. Also having new flavors monthly feels excessive.

My guy, you must enter the world of Jeni’s ice cream. B&J’s is entirely fine, but you can absolutely do better.

Louis CK is in hot water?!! Again?!!!!

They could make it today! The guys finally come back from Mexico. Or we open with Hank waiting for Britt to come out of jail... again.

some remarkable stuff happening in the Tucson region, don't miss it

this is a really interesting public official / local leader:

My picks for Pitchfork’s Readers Poll for Best Rap Albums of All Time. Artists include The Beatnuts, Nas, ODB, Public Enemy, GZA, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Madvillain, The Roots, Digable Planets, The Pharcyde, Souls of Mischief, Mobb Deep, Little Brother, Mos Def, The Notorious B.I.G., Wu-Tang Clan, Ghostface Killah and Kanye West.

Voting is important.

How to record ICE:

1) Record from a safe distance. DO NOT INTERVENE.
2) Put the DATE, TIME, & LOCATION on the video.
3) Ask for NAMES & BIRTHDAYS
4) CONTEXT, how many people were taken? What happened? How?
5) If possible, document vehicles used and agents, even if masked.

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